As the NFC title game approaches, columnist Danny Westneat asks, Is Seattle a stray dog to San Francisco’s alpha dog? “… in a way we got our start as San Francisco’s dump. We are to them as Tacoma is to us. OK, that’s too extreme. How about this: We are San Francisco’s Spokane.’ A changing…

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